Nautical Related Paintings by Drew Kopf:
The sea has been a part of my life since the beginning. I was born on the Island of Manhattan and spend my youth on Long Island, the next island east. I played for "millions of hours" on Sea Breeze Beach in Far Rockaway, New York as a tiny child until we moved to Nassau County, which is when Jones Beach became a favorite haunt of mine and remained so until I became more city-centric when I transfered to Yeshiva University High School for Boys of Manhattan in my sophomore year. My Uncle Ruby, who had been a Sea Bee during World War II, was an avid fisherman and took me along with him and his sons, my cousins, Doug and Shep, to fish for flounder in Reynolds Channel off the south shore of Long Island on several occasions. I was not the best fisherman, but I loved the boats we went out on and how they moved through the beautiful waters and how the sunlight played on its surface making magic in my eyes.
I respect the sea and how tremendously dangerous it can be. I am always aware of the wrecks at its bottom and the mysteries it still contains both regarding nature itself and the history of man in our attempts to explore and conquer it.
I am no longer one who sits for hours and bakes until brown as a berry, though I have had my share of very bad sunburns; just ask my sister Arlene who forgot to wake me up one summer’s day at Jones Beach. Wow. I have had my share of splinters from boardwalks. I have walked along the shore for miles and miles leaving my footprints in the wet sand; feeling the earth; picking up sea shells and tiny shards of glass smoothed out and polished by the sea and the sand making them so very special and unique.
Paintings of the sea and of the ships and people who sail it fascinate me. I have not spent enough time capturing such scenes, but the ones I have completed were a delight for me to do and I revisit them fondly from time-to-time.
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| © Drew Kopf 2010 |
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Title: Celebrity Summit - Aqua Spa |
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Water Color on paper |
| Size:
9" x 10" |
| Unframed |
| Created:
June 26, 2010 |
| Signed:
Drew Kopf 2010 LR |
Artist's Collection
Small World Observation: When the artist's friend Mary Ann saw the the artist's painting, she recalled that the sculture was some thing she too wanted to remember while she was cruising on the same ship in 2004. She snapped the photo below and shared it with us.
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| © Drew Kopf 2004 |
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Title:High Winds on Jones Beach |
| Medium:
Graphite on Paper |
| Size:
10" x 8" |
| Unframed |
| Created:
September 5, 2004 |
| Signed:
Drew Kopf 9-5-04 LR |
| Artist's
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| © Drew Kopf 2004 |
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Title: New Jersey Shore - Grandpa Dave and Matthew |
| Medium:
Water Color on paper |
| Size:
9"x11-1/4" |
| Unframed |
| Created:
Summer 2004 |
| Signed:
Drew Kopf LR |
| Artist's Collection |
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